Image - The fingerprint image analsysis system

Image is a package of analysis algorithms for processing gel images from restriction digest fingerprinting experiments.
Image has been tightly integrated with a friendly user interface and provides a robust tool for large scale physical
mapping. Image is able to process gels from a wide variety of scanning technologies and has been tested on various
fingerprinting protocols, producing normalized band and gel images as output.

The gel image is scanned or otherwise imported as an image file, and analyzed step by step. At each step the gel is
analyzed a little further, and the results are displayed on the screen, where a manual editor is provided at each
stage. These stages are :